Re: [PATCH] mmtimer: Push BKL down into the ioctl handler

From: Jes Sorensen
Date: Thu May 29 2008 - 07:50:17 EST


>>>>> "Alan" == Alan Cox <alan@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> writes:

Alan> Switches to unlocked_ioctl read to remove ioctl BKL method. Fix
Alan> the unknown ioctl return. Probably a nice easy one to kill off
Alan> BKL usage entirely later

Alan> Signed-off-by: Alan Cox <alan@xxxxxxxxxx>

Looks good to me, I should check whether we can't just kill the
lock_kernel() here - I suspect it shouldn't be an issue.

Acked-by: Jes Sorensen <jes@xxxxxxx>

Cheers,
Jes
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